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Behind Company Lines
By Hosts Julian Torres and Mike Townsend, sponsored by Otter LabsBusiness
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- Ryan Tansom, Co-Founder at Arkona
Ryan Tansom started his entrepreneurial career at his family business where he was the Executive VP and responsible for the strategic, operational, and financial strategy of the $21 Million company. Ryan helped turn the company around and bring intentional focus to the right strategies which enabled it to be sold for 8 figures to a local competitor in 2014.
Ryan took his experience and founded Arkona to create the Intentional Growth™ Framework which helps owners grow the value of their company with the end in mind through educational training, fractional CFO services and strategic planning.
Ryan also hosts the popular Intentional Growth™ podcast that has 250+ episodes, 360k+ downloads and guests like Gino Wickman, John Warrillow, and the editors of HBR and Inc. Magazine.
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38 min - Raffaele Colella, CEO of Mindmesh
Raffaele Colella is the Co-founder and CEO of Mindmesh, a YC company. Mindmesh is the first work OS built for individuals and teams. Raffaele is a 2x Entrepreneur, First startup received multiple Apple features and was acquired by Google. Raf joined Google and then became the lead PM for the new Google News Android app. Raffaele lived and worked 10+ years in Europe and 10+ years in the US.
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32 min - Ben Heller, CTO of Driver Technologies, Inc.
Ben Heller is the chief technology officer at Driver Technologies, Inc. He has 15+ years of experience building in mobile, web, and server-side technologies. Both global corporations and rising startups have leveraged his code to facilitate growth and innovation. Heller has worn many hats, from co-founder (Cureatr, medical care coordination) to engineering director (Arccos Golf, IOT/data) to principal engineer (Plex, media-streaming). Ben delights in designing streamlined, scalable solutions for unique and challenging problems. His work has taken him deep into large geographically distributed databases with massive simultaneous read/write volume, low-level Bluetooth and audio interfaces, media processing pipelines, and behaviorally-driven motion algorithms. He's excited to combine these experiences to bring forth the next generation of automotive safety.
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37 min - Ron Kerbs, Founder & CEO of Kidas
Ron is the founder and CEO of Kidas, a company that creates an AI-based solution that helps parents to protect their kids from bullying, scams, and online predators in more than 200 online multiplayer games like Fortnite, Roblox, and Call of duty.
Ron holds an MSc in information system engineering and machine learning from the Technion, Israel Institue of technology, an MBA from the Wharton school of business, and an MA in global studies from the Lauder institute at the University of Pennsylvania.
Before starting Kidas, Ron was an early-stage venture capital investor, and prior to that, he was an R&D manager who led teams to create big data and machine learning-based solutions for national security.
Ron is excited about gaming and making gaming a safe experience for kids and families.
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38 min - Camille Mackenzie, CEO & Co-Founder of Kintail
Camille Mackenzie is a serial founder, brand strategist and designer, and has a long history working in the construction industry which was the basis for the founding of her startup, Kintail which she co-founded with her husband, Carson, CTO and architect of the platform. Kintail is a no-code analytics platform that enables construction firms to integrate and automate data from any source and build insights in minutes without the need for writing code or spending hours in spreadsheets.
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32 min - Eduard Oboimov, CEO & Co-Founder of eTEU
Eduard Oboimov is CEO and Co-founder of eTEU, a startup that aims to digitalize documentation processes involved in international trade for SME exporters and importers. eTEU connects members of the international supply chain to a single blockchain-based platform, digitalizing shipping documentation and automating repetitive bureaucracies involved in organizing the international shipment. The startup is backed by UK Government Research & Innovation Council and leading technology investors, including Techstars Accelerator.
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26 min - Phil Reynolds, CEO & Co-founder at DevStride
Phil Reynolds is the Co-founder and CEO of DevStride, an Enterprise Agile Planning tool that frees your team from project silos. DevStride raised a $3.3m pre-seed round in August of 2022 following 18 months of initial product development.
Prior to DevStride, Phil was the Co-founder and CEO of BriteCore where he continues to serve as Chariman. BriteCore is a leading administration system for Property Casualty insurance that grew from a $6.1m seed-stage valuation in 2011 to a $180m Series B valuation in 2019.
Phil is a frequent speaker and presenter and has been featured in numerous national publications. He has placed repeatedly in the the Inc 500, been named Missouri Governor’s Entrepreneur of the Year. He has obtained certifications for Scaled Agile Leadership,Property Casualty Underwriting, and Leading Change in Complex Organizations through MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He is also a member of the Acrew Capital Crew of Leaders, and an active LP in the First Close Partners Network.
He is an avid fan of technology, music, whiskey, and car who enjoys mentoring first time founders whenever possible.
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35 min - Ayal Yogev, CEO & Co-Founder of Anjuna Security
Ayal Yogev is the co-founder and CEO of Anjuna Security. Ayal has 20 years of experience in the enterprise security market, serving most recently as VP of Product Management at SafeBreach. Prior to that, he led the Umbrella product management team at OpenDNS, which was acquired by Cisco in 2015 for $635M. Ayal has also held senior product management positions at Lookout and Imperva, and he was part of Imperva's IPO in 2011.
Ayal holds an MBA with honors from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and a B.Sc. Summa Cum Laude in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University.
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37 min - Kirill Makharinsky, Co-Founder & CEO of Enki
Kirill is the Founder and CEO of Enki, the company that helps teams with adoption of business intelligence and data tools. Previously, he co-founded Emerging Travel Group (including the brands RateHawk & ZenHotels) a profitable OTA with net annual revenues of over $100M, and Quid, a leading research and analysis tool for strategy teams with revenues of over $50M. In addition to his entrepreneurial ventures, he is an angel investor in Calm, AngelList, Opencare, and more.
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36 min - Joel Young, CTO at Hireguide
From his first job after graduating from WPI building test-bank software and building camera-ready copy for textbook publishers to his time as a professor, Joel Young has been fascinated with the tools, the techniques, and the science of measuring human performance and aptitude.
After a full Air Force career and then serving as a professor, in 2014, Joel shifted to the industry to build LinkedIn's ML infrastructure. In August 2019 he moved to product engineering, leading Assessments in LinkedIn's Talent Solutions organization. This was his amazing learning path with close involvement with external customers, marketing, product management, design, and both business and corporate development.
Along the way, at LinkedIn, he interviewed 550 candidates, personally hired over 50, led hiring committees for five years, and helped define and document LinkedIn's engineering interviewing and hiring processes.
Their work in Assessments and Skills Path opened the door to potential and skills-based hiring. However, it didn't address the problem with traditional interviewing processes using ad hoc interviews resulting in a selection based on comfort and is-like-me decision-making. These processes bias against non-traditional candidates AND increase the likelihood of underperforming hires.
In the early summer of 2021, they founded Hireguide to address this gap.
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About Behind Company Lines
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